 | Matthew Simpson - 1856 - 254 pages
...at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but...little thought "What wealth the show to me had brought. 2* For oft, when on my couch I lie, In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced ; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but...show to me had brought : For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ;... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. Tho waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee : — A poet could not...show to me had brought : For oft when on my couch I lie, In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude,... | |
 | Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 376 pages
...in very simple language, these lines occur : — " The waves beside them danced ; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but...to me had brought : " For oft, when on my couch I lie, In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye, Which is the bliss of solitude... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1859 - 472 pages
...at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced ; but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee; A poet could not but...show to me had brought : For oft when on my couch I lie, In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash npou that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ;... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1859 - 512 pages
...at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but...the show to me had brought. For oft when on my couch 1 lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is2 the bliss of solitude... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1886 - 588 pages
...glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. "The waves beside them danced — but they Oat-did the sparkling waves in glee. A poet could not but...show to me had brought. "For oft when on my couch I lie, In vacant, or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye, Which is the bliss of solitude.... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced ; but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee : A poet could not but...show to me had brought : For oft, when on my couch I He In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ; And... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee : — A poet could not...show to me had brought : For oft when on my couch I lie, In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude,... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee ; A poet could not but...show to me had brought. For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And... | |
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Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the... 
